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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1970
Page
1
U S District Judge William M Taylor Jr ordered Ferris Independent School District to desegregate and postponed the start of classes by one week to arrange transfers. The order requires staff assignments by August 31 so no school appears for one race. Dunbar campus to close and students move to Ferris.
The Lubbock School Board approved a $23.9 million spending plan for 1971 72 with a nine cent hike in school taxes. The measure includes $755 640 for operating contingencies to cover potential federal desegregation orders and adds 40 and 15 teachers for special education and other programs.
Department of Public Safety urges motorists to slow for children as schools reopen. Lubbock teachers attend inservice sessions. South Plains Fair tickets go on sale. Texas oil issues and Kennedy aides questioned. North Vietnamese ambush and US Russia cease fire tensions noted. Also weather, market reports, editorials, and comics appear in the issue.
The Lubbock School Board faces a U.S. Justice Department desegregation suit alleging a dual system based on race. The suit was transferred to U.S. District Court in Lubbock Friday as the district backs its current plans approved by a federal examiner. At a Wednesday budget meeting, supporters urged keeping Dunbar High School open amid protests from Dunbar PTA president Willie Washington and realtor Dan Gryder.
A Reader offers a brief devotional prayer thanking God for blessings and asking for forgiveness and protection for soldiers. The plea seeks divine safeguarding against evil and expresses communal reverence.
A Japanese woman aboard an All Nippon Airways flight feigned illness to distract a hijacker at a Tokyo airport. Police then boarded the plane, overpowering Sachio Inagaki, a former cook apprentice, who forced the airliner to land at a Japan Self-Defense Forces base. Miss Michio Akita, 22, left the craft as officers moved in, aided by plainclothes police.
A single ancient bone surfaced on an auger drill in Yellow House Canyon amid a 20 foot hole filled with cement. Project superintendent Noret Flood says larger prehistoric bones could lie nearby, with small bone fragments found nearby and a possible uncle in Lamesa who could guide a hunt.
Defenders of Nixon's Safeguard antimissile system defeat a Senate challenge 53 to 45. The vote centers on expansion limits and national bargaining leverage in the arms talks with the Soviet Union, as supporters seek to limit growth and maintain leverage. A Brooke amendment seeks to curb geographic expansion and constrain funding to approved sites. The session shifts to a broader military procurement bill with further amendments anticipated.
Tropical Storm Dorothy gathered strength in the Atlantic and moved toward the Caribbean with 70 mph winds. Forecasters warned residents of Martinique St Lucia and nearby islands to prepare as the storm’s center neared 230 miles east of St Lucia and continued on a west-northwest path.
Fatigued crews fight three forest fires near Lovell and Yellowstone as gusts reach fifty miles per hour. Officials report rekindled flames across Shoshone and Yellowstone areas while 500 workers try to contain Wyoming's worst blaze in 25 years.
On Wednesday the Hub City endured 102 degree heat breaking records while thunderclouds sparked displays across the South Plains. A Hobbs police detective, Ronald Wylie, 26, was killed by lightning while golfing. Dallas and Northeast Texas received welcome rain easing drought, though most parched farms saw little moisture. Late warnings covered Lynn and Briscoe counties as storms sparked thunder but produced scant rainfall. Quitaque recorded a light shower with strong thunder activity.
Observers noted little rainfall from storms near O'Donnell and Tahoka while Levelland logged the heaviest shower at up to .3 inch. A third day of record heat looms with a 2 percent rain chance as a cold front drifts into the Panhandle. Former high set at 102 followed a 96 record. Utility officials reported peak power use across SWPS and LP&L as temperatures soared. See Lubbock's Page 10.
Pioneer Natural Gas Company files rate applications with 56 West Texas cities to raise general service charges for domestic and commercial customers. If approved, the company would accept a 16.2 percent increase within the 60 day legal window. Mayor Granberry expects informal City Council discussion today. Local rates in Lubbock include 1.85 dollars for the first 2 000 cubic feet and higher blocks priced per thousand cubic feetmbers.
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